John Adams Library copy bound with numerous other items, all separately cataloged. Inscribed on first leaf, recto: "Thomas Prince his book." Contains significant annotations in Prince's hand. John Adams's signature on title page, recto: "John Adams." Inscribed on title page, verso: "At a court of commissioners for settling, adjuting, and determining the boundary of the colony of Rhode Island eastward towards the province of the Massachusetts Bay. This Book was produced in court by the agents for the province to the end they might give several passages therein contained as evidence. But the agents for the colony opposed and the Court rejected the same. Dated as of Court of Commissioners sitting in Providence in the colony of Rhode Island" The Twenty-third day of June Anno Domani 1741 ---Attest Will Sam Ballard

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894

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